Ron McBurnie, Catherine Parker and Stephen Spurrier, The ghosts sleep beneath our feet and dance above our heads (detail), ‘Cosmic Witness’ series, 2020-22, Ink, acrylic paint, paint pens, pencil, watercolour and gold leaf, 42 x 29cm
POSTWORLD 2024 - 2027
Alison Bennett, Neil Binnie, K.Verell (Blue Screen of Death), Gail Mabo, Ron McBurnie, Jenny Mulcahy, Catherine Parker, David Rowe, Jason Sims, Stephen Spurrier and Rhonda Stevens
Words below by co-curators Kate O’Hara and Daniel Qualischefski and kindly reproduced from the website of Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Gurambilbarra (Townsville), Queensland
POSTWORLD features Australian artists who create parallel universes. Audiences are invited into the playful, sublime, poetic and cautionary in this exhibition. Drawing on the detritus of human experience, these worlds have their own internal languages existing in alternate time and space.
As the show was built, each artist’s work expanded on this thematic provocation, finding pathways to comfort, resistant to the overwhelming sense of panic. Stillness, awe and appreciation resonated, honouring the world beyond its utility to provide resources for consumption in the Anthropocene.
New fictions (and possible futures) are rendered, providing alternate perspectives on the environment, gender and capitalist hegemony.
Please read more and direct any EOIs to Museums and Galleries Queensland here.
POSTWORLD is a touring initiative co-curated by Kate O’Hara and Daniel Qualischefski, developed by Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts (Umbrella), commissioned by NAFA and toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland (M&G QLD). This project has been assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program and by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Umbrella and M&G QLD are supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Both organisations are also supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receive funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.
Tour Dates
23 February – 27 April 2024
Mike Carney Creative Industries Gallery, QLD
10 May – 7 July 2024
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, QLD
3 August 2024 – 20 October 2024
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD
13 March 2025 – 10 May 2025
Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW
13 September 2025 – 23 November 2025
Signal Point Gallery, SA
10 April 2026 – 28 June 2026
Qantas Founders Museum, QLD
28 November 2026 – 21 February 2027
Rockhampton Museum of Art, QLD
1 April 2027 – 16 May 2027
Warwick Art Gallery, QLD
28 May 2027 – 4 July 2027
Tanks Arts Centre, QLD
URBAN CALM - catalogue book - 65 pages with introduction by Rachel Parsons, Director of NERAM - New England Regional Art Museum . Curated by Laura Brinin - please scroll to bottom of page for short video
March 10 - 31, 2022
Side Gallery
Brisbane
Presence of Place
13 September - 18 October 2020
A solo exhibition of paintings at Redland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Floor talk created by Program officer, Jasmine Smith
Vis-abilty Exhibiton: QUT Art Museum
May 11 - August 4, 2019
Present Portal (installation photo below) was selected by the Creative Industries Art and Design Dept at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) as well as the curatorial staff at QUT Art Museum to make the inaugural 3D object to assist the visually impaired to have a sensory, tactile experience of artworks in galleries. Based on my painting, the object aims to represent what it would be like to traverse this mystical landscape. A sonic interpretation, based on Present Portal accompanied the installation and was created by French DJ, Aymeric Vildeau | please see link below
Aymeric Vildeau soundscape:
https://soundcloud.com/qut-art-museum/soundscape-by-aymeric-vildieu
Photo courtesy of Carl Warner 2019
Parallel Worlds - essay by Annelize Mulder www.annlizemulder.com
August 26 - September 30, 2017
Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane
The final paragraph in the catalogue essay by Annelize Mulder, a practicing artist and writer based in Brisbane.
Parker is a story teller and her endeavour is to unmask what we often dismiss, not due to our inability to see beyond, but simply because we don’t pause to truly observe. Parker doesn’t impose boundaries or belief systems on us, she merely offers a roadmap to evoke a renewed sense of marvel in the world around us.
Words by Annelize Mulder, a practicing artist and writer based in Brisbane.
It's (Still) a Beautiful World
26 August 2015 | Art Almanac
Spiro Grace Art Rooms
It’s { Still } a Beautiful World 2015
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https://www.art-almanac.com.au/catherine-parker-its-still-a-beautiful-world/?
Whilst the world may at times be in a state of flux, Catherine Parker’s work stands as an affirmation of the constant beauty within nature and humanity. Often eschewing a focal point, her mixed media paintings explore the intricacies within the vastness of physical and spiritual space, depicting decentralised worlds where all things are interconnected.
Bound together on the periphery and surrounded by highly detailed fragments along the outer edges of the canvas, each waits to be intuitively contemplated into reality. Parker’s works remind us to pay attention to the wonders of the world – not necessarily the marvels but specifically the things that exist around us and within us.
Words by Dr Tiffany Shafran
writer, artist and Coordinator Exhibitions and Public Programs
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
2024 - POSTWORLD Artist Talk, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
2022 - I pick up what you put down, A Block Gallery, Visual Arts Gallery, UniSQ, Toowoomba, Queensland
2022 - POSTWORLD Artist Talk, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Gurambilbarra (Townsville), Queensland
2020 - Floor Talk Presence of Place - a solo exhibition of paintings: made by Jasmine Smith, Program Officer, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Brisbane
2020 - Artist interview (FB Zoom Live) with Caloundra Regional Art Gallery Director, Jo Duke for exhibition: Constructing Landscapes: urban visions
2019 - Art Enquirer - Present Portal essay by Stella Eaton in conjunction with the IMA - Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and Flying Arts, Brisbane
2017 -Eyeline Magazine #87 Review: A Game of sheer coincidence. A game of continuous encounters.
Common Ground: The serendipitous happenstance project by Shatavisha Mustafi pg 90-91
2017 - Catalogue Essay for: Parallel Worldsby Annelize Mulder: SGAR Spiro Grace Art Rooms
2016 – 2017: Kochi Muziris Biennale catalogue: Common Ground: The Serendipitous Happenstance Project
2015 - It's (Still )a Beautiful World 26 August 2015 | Art Almanac Please click on this link
https://www.art-almanac.com.au/catherine-parker-its-still-a-beautiful-world/
2015 - It's (Still ) a Beautiful World catalogue essay by Dr Tiffany Shafran
2012 Udarta/Kindness Australia - India Cultural Exchange, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.India and RMIT Storey Hall Gallery, Melbourne
2001 - Little Treasures - collaborative Artists' Books in collaboration with Stephen Spurrier 2001 p8
1999 - The Cask - an Aussie Icon- National Gallery of Victoria
Fifty / 50
2023
NERAM - New England Regional Art Museum
https://New England Regional Art Museum
Feb 3 - March 13 2023
Feb 3 - March 13 2023
It was a honour to be invited to exhibit with some pretty special + iconic artists and some whom I’ve admired for a long time…
In the words of the curatorial team…
It’s NERAM’s 40th anniversary and to celebrate we are bringing back an old NERAM tradition, the Fifty/ 50. Conceived by previous NERAM Director, Joe Eisenberg, the Fifty/ 50 is an exhibition, it’s a raffle, and it’s a fundraiser for the Art Museum. Artists have donated artworks that are up for grabs in a progressive raffle that will be drawn at the conclusion of the exhibition. If your name gets drawn out first, you get first pick from all of the artworks on display, and so on until the last person drawn gets the last artwork remaining.
Artists: Angus Nivison, Ben Tooth, Carl Warner, Catherine Parker, Christopher Hodges, David Frazer, David Voigt, Deborah Wilkinson, Dianne Fogwell, Deirdre Bean, Ebony Russell, Elizabeth Willing, Elouise Roberts, Euan Macleod, Frank Hodgkinson, Gabrielle Collins, Garry Shead, Helen Eager, Henri van Noordenburg, John Olsen, Jude Rae, Judy Watson, Judy Cassab, Julianne Allcorn, Kate Barry, Kate Durack, Kate Rohde, Ken Done, Kurt Sorensen, Leah Bullen, Liz Priestley, Liz Peniazeva, Maria Constantinescu, Michael Zavros, Michelle Hungerford, Miranda Hine, Mostyn Bramley Moore, Myfanwy Gullifer, Natalya Hughes, Paula Jenkins, Penelope Oates, Robert Moore, Rona Green, Ross Laurie, Ruth Waller, Samantha Dennison, Samuel Massey, Susan Lincoln, Suzy King & Zoe Tjanavaras.
Catherine Parker
50/50 work for NERAM
(see above video)
Climbing the Rainbow 2023
Acrylic and ink on marine ply
22 x 36 cm
